Working on a little tool for fetching pages on the smolnet https://codeberg.org/liberty/snurl/
It currently supports Gopher, Spartan, and Finger, with Gemini in the works.
Working on a little tool for fetching pages on the smolnet https://codeberg.org/liberty/snurl/
It currently supports Gopher, Spartan, and Finger, with Gemini in the works.
It's over! At least for today! But we did learn some very interesting things about #asyncio !
We'll certainly be covering some more asyncio joy in the next few days... I'm a sucker for protocols. Maybe we'll use asyncio to create a #Gopher server, since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) is super trivial.
Then I'll probably go for creating a little chat server or something 🤔
Great read on #finger, #gopher and #gemini - text is enough
https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019. These protocols offer decentralized, terminal-based alternatives to the modern web. The small web's is in a renaissance. On the solarpunk philosophy of intentional technology, and how these protocols meet you where you are, whether you're on a machine from 2005 or just tired of Chrome's monoculture.
Did you know that the max gopher query length is just a *sugguestion*?
And that you can cleverly use it to deliver image payloads?
Proof of posting a ~4KB image: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:70/1/applets/interlog/interlog.lhs
Hola! Continuo construyendo mi #gopher con el el contenido de #microblog, les animo a visitarlo:
gopher://libredatos.xyz:70/0/contenido/pérdidadelibertades.txt